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Easter is a special holiday for many families. While most Christians prefer to protect front of the deeper meaning of the feast that celebrates the resurrection, others see a meaning and symbolism of celebration, good food and chocolate eggs. Whatever your goal, the camping is the perfect setting to live all this: simplicity, closeness with nature and a lot of coexistence with the next.

The floor is the floor of the tent room. He is in direct contact with the soil, animals, moisture and need to provide security for the camper who uses the tent. The floor must be resistant to abrasion and have a minimum of impermeability.
But, so that it can keep safe everything that is inside the tent, besides adequate physical and chemical characteristics, it takes some care so that it does not tear, puncture, or lose your waterproofing.
Check out this article some tips to take care of your tent floor.
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Tent Floor material
Before going into details about the care is worth explaining a bit about the materials and their characteristics.
The floors are usually made in materials such as polyethylene, Nylon (Polyamide) or polyester, according to campingship. Better understand the characteristics of these materials:
Polyethylene: Is a plastic material, a sort of canvas, waterproof, and thicker and heavier than Nylon or polyester. Is used in less technical tents. For being a plastic, don’t lose your waterproofing, but the friction can wear and weaken, making holes and tears.
Nylon (Polyamide): Is a well-known fabric, lightweight, soft, flammable, with good resistance to abrasion, fungi, mold and chemicals.
Polyester: It has features similar to nylon: light, with good resistance to abrasion (but a little lower than nylon) and less flammable than nylon. Its texture is more rough and fibrous and knead with less ease. It can be said that the polyester fabric is a little lower than nylon and with cheaper cost.
It is worth commenting that both the Nylon as the floors are made of polyester fabric and, therefore, need to receive a treatment to be waterproof. Have the floor in polyethylene, plastic material, does not have this need and does not lose the sealing over time.
Abrasion resistance: The floor of the stalls have to offer a minimum of abrasion resistance to prevent it tear or puncture.
Water resistance: He must also have a good resistance to water, to prevent the rain accumulated in the soil inside to inside the tent. The resistance of the fabric, waterproof floors, as well as sobreteto, resistance is measured by the Water column , whose value is typically bigger than sobreteto.
Just as an example: the tent Bivak has water column 2000 mm in sobreteto and 4000 mm in the floor (bottom). The Nepal has 3000 mm in sobreteto and 6000 mm in the floor. The higher the value, the smaller the chance of leaks in your tent (if it is properly mounted).
Care required with the tent Floor
Soil cleaning
Before you set up your tent, it is important to clean the floor where it will be placed. Try removing any hard, sharp or pointed object that might be in the soil. Remove stones, bricks, twigs and thorns – this easily prevents tears and holes in the floor.
Extra protection
To avoid tears, another possibility is that you use a little extra protection under the tent. Can be a canvas or paper, so the floor of your tent is less vulnerable.
However, there is an important factor that must be observed for this extra protection work: the canvas must be of a size slightly smaller than the size of the tent floor. She can’t be left out and appearing under the tent; must stay hidden, to prevent the rain from dripping on her and penetrates between the canvas and the floor of the tent.
We know that many people have the habit of using huge tarps under the tent, leaving for sides. But this is not recommended because when it rains, water flows through the tarp down the tent and is empoçada between the canvas and the floor of the room. In a few days, the water between the canvas and tent can create Moss and fungi and, instead of protecting the floor of your tent, you end up handicapping the waterproofing the floor.
Put down a tarp or tent newspaper, of a size slightly smaller than the floor, can also decrease the chance of entering water if she’s not with a good waterproofing on the ground, and will keep it cleaner, facilitating and making faster the sad process of disassembly.
Fold
In time to keep the tent, especially if she is with polyethylene floor, avoid bending she using exactly the same brands of all time. The bends end up handicapping the material which can facilitate her tear at that point. You can keep the floor in its original format, but with the folds 3 cm to the side where is the “mark of the fold”. Switch the location where the material will be folded, prevents embrittlement.
Duct Tape
Even taking all precautions, can always be an accident and the floor tearing or sticking during camp. In this case, the best solution is to always have with you a duct tape! Apply it over the hole or tear – If the quality of the tape is good, it will prevent water from entering, but when in doubt keep monitoring the site.
Important! It is worth mentioning that, depending on where your tent was set up and the intensity of rain, even a very small hole can transform your tent into a pool and end your adventure.Do what you can to avoid it.
Loss of waterproofing and embrittlement
With the continuous use of tent, waterproof fabrics, both the sobreteto and the floor, go missing the waterproofing treatment, and the trend is the water begin to infiltrate through the fabric. Realizing that loss of waterproofing, it is possible to strengthen the resistance of the tissue by applying on it 1 1 spray waterproofing. This may increase a little the life of your tent, but is difficult to define how much time.
It is worth commenting that the loss of original tent waterproofing demonstrates that she is reaching the limit of your life. It’s a sign for you to start thinking about a new tent.
If the floor of your tent is made of polyethylene (plastic material) and no, he didn’t lose his waterproofing, but with continued use, abrasion weakens the material making it easier your breakup.
Cleaning the Tent
To disassemble the tent, it is very important to clean the underside of the floor: remove earth, sand or anything else that has been stuck on the ground.
Clean only with a tissue (perfex, dishcloth, dirty t-shirt, etc.), and a little water. To clean the floor, do not use too much force or chemicals that can affect proofing (if he is).
If for some time or logistics problem it is not possible to clean the floor in time to dismantle, take home. But you know, when you get home, you’ll need to open the tent and do this cleaning before putting it away until the next camp.
The same rule holds true for if the floor is wet. You can even load the tent wet until your House, but before putting on the packaging, it is necessary to dry 100% the whole structure.
Write this down: save a wet tent for long is how to throw it in the trash. The fungi spread and the mold takes over, ruining the fabric and waterproofing.
Handle with care of your tent, after all, when you are camping, it is your home, your home, your comfort zone or the most protected you can find!

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